I’m currently trying to clear the driveway of about 3 metric fucktons of damp slippery leaves. Then I need to clean the chicken coops.
Fortunately, no pigs to deal with, just a dog and 2 kids who aren’t much help. Think I might nip down the Co-op for some Bacon.
Where do I figure in your marketing plans, Microsoft, eh?
EH?EH?

The hack of the Kinect camera (it’s on Kotaku somewhere) shows just how imprecise and slow the technology is. You step in front of the camera and it creates the most basic stickman you’ve ever seen. No hands or feet. And even then it noticeably lags. So you can’t do anything subtle, everything must be body or limb gestures.

Videos of using the 360 menus show that in order to make a selection, you have to keep your hand in the same place for a second or two while a timer fills up. You can’t virtually ‘click’ things because you don’t have any hands.

The voice recognition is meant to be impressive, but it’s still slow. You say “XBOX” and about 1.5 seconds later it brings up an option bar. Am I the only one that thinks speaking to your computer is more hassle than just typing or clicking with the mouse? But then I suppose they don’t make these products with the 1.5% of the population that finds all verbal communication a hassle in mind.

And the IR projection can cause eye damage. Maybe, I have read IR can damage eyes and the Kinect beams it right at you so . . .

I’m closer to square B2. He looks awful; lack of sleep, not eating properly. Except this product isn’t for me. Because I’m not some fantasy demographic with a cavernous living room where I can wave my arms about like a twat without smacking the wall/sofa/other half.

I’m the one saying “I’m out of breath”, but they’ve cut off the rest of my sentence saying “can’t I just play something sitting down?” This was followed by “How am I supposed to have a wank with this bloody thing watching me all the time?”